Star Sun Challenges Dell to a Benchmark Brawl
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jan 2006 21:08 UTC, submitted by Nehemoth
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y "Customers demanded it and now it's here. Sun is challenging Dell to a Benchmark Brawl. Up for contention are the titles for the server side Java benchmark. Floating point intensive calculation. Power consumption. And the jewel in the crown, price-performance. If Dell accepts, benchmarks will be conducted by a neutral, third-party lab running agreed upon industry-standard benchmarks. Dell has until January 31, 2006 to accept the challenge. Testing [is] to be done using Sun Fire x4100 and X4200 servers and the corresponding Dell Xeon servers that are commercially shipping in volume."
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One thing this PR stunt accomplishes:
by mario on Wed 25th Jan 2006 21:55 UTC
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2005-07-06

With this challenge, Sun has managed to point out one thing: that Dell is at a disadvantage by sticking with Intel. The situation is now put in clear light and is dificult to overlook.

So whether or not it will help Sun may be up for debate (my personal, gut feeling is, it could), but, boy oh boy does AMD love it!

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Get a Life Member since:
2006-01-01

Dell would probably be fine to just ride it out until Woodcrest is released. Unless Woodcrest is a lemon, they've already taken the bulk of the pain of being an Intel shop.

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1c3d0g Member since:
2005-07-06

Agreed, Get a Life. Woodcrest is a different beast entirely, and it'll be interesting to see if SUN still wants to challenge them when Woodcrest is out. :-)

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